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• [1] Christine Marsh-Rijssenbeek from Redding, CT April 09, 2008 - 02:15PM

  I remember being astounded the first time I heard this and was prompted to listen to it again after your recent 25 year anniversary show. Some words that come to mind when thinking of Jerry Lewis... raging narcissism, patronizing, and, ultimately, stupid. He was too arogant to do his homework on Leonard and his audience, probably the most educated in the nation, and so ended up insulting millions of people. Hopefully the French will rethink their strange and inexplicable obsession. It was so screamingly obvious and macabre that he waited until the day Dean died to write this book because it is, as my Welsh grandmother used to say, a "stretch". I hope I see this book on the remainder tables, it would be a good choice for composting although possibly too toxic. Leonard's gentle and seductive interview style allowed Lewis' answers and attitude to reveal this very unpleasant, avaricious and marginally talented man's true character. No wonder the only air time he could get for years was freebees for MD. Bravo Leonard!